Medicine: Mothers

A frantic obstetrician and an excited policeman chased through Boston
last week, expecting disaster when they caught up with Mrs. Rubina
Hartman. A few hours after giving birth to a girl in City Hospital,
Mrs. Hartman, 33, had dressed, visited friends, then gone to her home
in suburban Roxbury. Nurses found the infant lying alone in Mrs.
Hartman's hospital bed. No mania impelled her, the mother averred when
doctor and policeman reached her. She felt well; she had work to do at
home; she was going to do it; the hospital, she knew, would...